The state has released the awards that health systems will receive under an incentive program to fund projects aimed at improving New Yorkers’ health while reducing unnecessary hospital visits. As previously published, Capital Region health systems will receive close to $400 million for collaborative projects whose goals include better coordination of services, management of chronic […]
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Capital Region health systems learned early last month how much they will receive in funds to advance collaborative projects aimed at improving New Yorkers’ health and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions. The state Health Department, however, has yet to release those figures, and the health systems won’t divulge the numbers themselves. Crain’s said it has obtained the […]
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ALBANY — Representatives of Albany Medical Center and the Alliance for Better Health Care — a collaboration led by St. Peter’s Health Partners and Ellis Medicine — on Friday will discuss their priorities under a state-funded health system restructuring effort that is getting underway. The Capital Region health systems received letters last month informing them […]
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James W. Connolly will retire from Ellis Medicine, after seeing the health system through a state-mandated transition that merged Schenectady County’s three area hospitals, the non-profit’s board announced Thursday. Chief Operating Officer Paul A. Milton has been appointed acting president and CEO. Milton will oversee a staff of 2,800 people on four campuses and a […]
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The federal government announced Tuesday that 35 hospitals around the nation have been designated to treat patients with Ebola, the rare but deadly virus that has plagued West Africa. The 35 hospitals were identified by state officials, and then surveyed by staff from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to state and […]
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Capital Region health alliances led by Albany Medical Center and Ellis Hospital have been awarded funding from the state Health Department to design projects that will reduce hospital admissions and improve the health of Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured New Yorkers. The funding, part of $21.5 million the state announced will go to 43 medical groups, […]
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. Ike Cassuto, 88, was caught in a Medicare loophole that affects thousands of older Americans. Cassuto broke his pelvis but Medicare wouldn’t pay for the three weeks he spent at a rehab hospital. Medicare only pays for inpatient rehab after someone has been hospitalized for three days. Cassuto spent four days at St. Peter’s […]
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Albany Medical Center’s first patient with a long-term heart pump went home on Tuesday. Dr. Stuart Miller, a heart surgeon, implanted the device on Nov. 30 in David Morey, 63, of Guilderland. The device is the same one implanted in former Vice President Dick Cheney. Albany Med is the first hospital in the region to […]
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